Grok Build leaks confidential user data
Ars Technica: Grok Build coding agent leaks oodles of confidential info, some belonging to SpaceXSI
Grok Build, the vibe-coding agent from SpaceXSI, is leaking data—some of it proprietary business information and other sensitive secrets—from thousands of its users, including the very same Elon Musk-owned company that offers the platform, new research shows. The information is revealed through links allowing Grok Build users to share their apps with others. Grok takes steps to randomize the URLs so only people who know the exact URL can access the data stored there. A design decision by develop
Grok Build, a coding agent platform, has been leaking confidential data from thousands of user applications through a flaw in how it generates shareable links. The platform uses randomized phrases in the left portion of URLs to obscure access, but this design allows the links to be easily discovered through passive DNS services that monitor public domain lookups, making nearly 95 percent of over 35,000 Grok Build apps accessible to anyone who finds the correct link. The exposed data includes internal business plans, medical records, employee rosters, and military contractor information from various organizations, as well as proprietary materials from SpaceXSI itself, the company that created the platform. The vulnerability stems from a fundamental design choice: placing randomness to the left of the domain name rather than to the right, as other platforms like Google use, which would have kept the links invisible to DNS searches.
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